Every Control Center module shares one app icon, so the tray was a wall
of identical tiles. Map each item's title to its own SF Symbol so Wi-Fi,
Battery, Now Playing and friends are distinguishable at a glance.
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The point of the app is a single hamburger that replaces the tray, so
hiding the other icons should be the out-of-the-box state. Remember the
user's choice, and create the hamburger before the hider so it is not
itself pushed off-screen.
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Control Center reports every module it owns, so the tray filled with
identical tiles for items that are not actually in the menu bar. Keep
only items whose accessibility position is in the bar and de-duplicate
by title, so each tray icon appears once.
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Hiding pushed Wi-Fi off along with the third-party app icons. Tune the
spacer boundary to sit just left of Wi-Fi so apps disappear while the
Apple Wi-Fi, Spotlight, Clock, Battery and Control Center icons remain.
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Hiding other apps' icons worked, but Apple pins Spotlight, Clock, Battery
and Control Center to the right of the menu bar, so a third-party item can
never be placed after them to push them away. Document the real limit so
the behaviour is not mistaken for a bug.
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New status items land leftmost, which on a notched Mac lands under the
notch and is invisible, so the app appeared broken. Replace MenuBarExtra
with a managed status item that carries an autosave name and a persisted
preferred position, and add a diagnostic dump to verify placement.
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The Menu Bar section silently stayed empty because nothing prompted for
Accessibility permission until a button inside the panel was clicked, so
the app looked inert. Prompt once on first launch instead.
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Readers and future sessions need one obvious place that says how to move
an installed app to the latest version, and the release flow now requires
surfacing those commands in every release report.
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The menu bar icon is now a hamburger whose panel gathers every other
app's status item via the Accessibility API, so tray icons no longer
need to be hunted down across the menu bar. Items can be opened from
the panel, and a best-effort toggle pushes them off the real menu bar
so they only live there.
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